Are you a re-namer?

Is this an acceptable practice? I personally don't see anything wrong with it.

if you throw a name on somthing and it gets you 5 $ more a gram then all the power to ya but unless i grew it my self i dont trust the name brands and hey if you cross bred it your self i dont see any problem with naming it as i mentioned earlyer in the thread im crossing jack herrer and ice to hopefully make a stable mother i can coin jack on the rocks

ryanadams said:

maybe I'm sounding like a dork here...but i don't think the renaming thing is cool. first off, genetically, just because you cross two plants doesn't mean you get a mixed phenotype in the first seed harvest. you might actually get one of the parent's pheno's with a bunch of genes that are going to show up in the next generation.
I think growers should take some responsibility in that. I also don't like that everything is bubblelicious hazy gum bubbleberry...
I think the strains and the effort put into their cultivation deserve more respect. We should be talking about indica/sativa pheno's as in:
I'm growing bagseed which seems to have an indica dominant phenotype, copious resin production and fruity aroma much like bubblegum.
to me that is a lot more info than "bubble kushberry boombastic"
ahaha...not that i wouldn't smoke that happily.
renaming shouldn't happen unless the genetics are stable IMO

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i agree wholeheartedly

What do you get when you mix Durban Poison and Hindu Kush?

I would call that Hindu Poison personally.

I cant agree wholeheartedly unfortunately. The only reason why, is because the moment you try to explain some shit like that to 90% of the stoner universe, their eyes glaze over and they stop payin attention to ya, lol. But if you tell them a name, then theyre payin attention, cuz they wanna be able to tell all their friends that they smoked whatever the hell you tell them it is. I dont think its right tellin people theyre smokin on somethin theyre not for sure, but if you dont know what strain it is, and its for sure some brand name chronic, then i would say take a guess as best as you can, and go from there.

N within the next little bit here, im gonna try n cross my blue cheese with my red diesel n name it Cheesey Diesel , or cross blue cheese with some twilight n call it Blue Tweezey -- somethin along them lines man. Or, (i havent grown it yet but got the seeds), just improve on a strain, n cross Nyc Diesel with The Black, n call it Black Diesel -- simple enough to name a strain n make it sound like some premiere shit, right??

Lizard.King said:

What do you get when you mix Durban Poison and Hindu Kush?

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Id call it Hurban Push

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n on another note, since were talkin about namin strains here, has anyone ever smoked that shit that the three six mafia made that song about -- "Bin Laden Weed" ?? Was always kinda curious about it, cuz everyone n their mother around here has said that theyve smoked it, n im wonderin if its some dirt weed, cuz at the time thats all that was floatin around my town, lol

Black Diesel. Good god man. Sign me right the fuck up!

"Terrorist Weed". HAHA! I like that. Black diesel. Diesel Dyke. WTF?

If we don't give unknown strains or crossed strains new names, how will we ever see new strains? Lets just say that there are currently 1,134 strains out there (just for argument's sake). We're supposed to let it STAY at that number? Variety is the spice of life. I say lets have as many strains as we can come up with. Now I'm not saying we should take a strain and change it's name... or that we should take bagseed and call it... lets just say "White Widow".

I'm saying that if we have a strain that we don't know the name of... we give it a name (especially if its been crossed with another strain). Personally, I think strain names should be indicative of the strain's features. Now I call my bagseed "Strawberry Skunk". Why? Because it smells like Strawberries and it also smells like skunk weed. So, if we take an unknown strain and name it, its no longer unknown.

My idea is mainly based in bagseed (commercial weed that is). Its usually grown in some field in Mexico (or somewhere like that) where the growers just take whatever seeds they can get a hold of and toss em out there to grow and cross-breed. Bagseed is usually gonna be mixtures of strains (strains that might not even be named). We might as well observe their features and name them. This is one of the ways that new strains are created.. and I feel that its perfectly legitimate.

pretty sure bin laden weed is just code name for some kind of afghani "bomb" shit... could be ak47 afghan, etc.. just like bobby brown or brown frown is typically code name for any kind of brown mids or whateva

People gotta hold more respect for strains i think. If your just growing some small amount, and hookin up the pals, than sure, name it whatever you want. But if you supplying legit medical grade to clubs, best keep the strain names in tact. Have respect for the strains so patients know what they getting and can use the appropriate type for their needs. Get the book of buds and you will grow respect for keeping the names legit. on a side note, if your a top notch creator, and are X breeding strains, than you have a right to combine names etc.

^ Never thought of medical grade. I completely agree with everything Yota just said.

plantsinpants said:

yeah!! i make up all sorts of crazy names for my weed just to see the weed gurus get all amazed about some strain that doesnt exist,

im currently groing some, infra-green skunk haze#4!!! LOL

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most anyone with halfway decent knowlegde about strains and breeding will call bullshit on some shit like this. i bet your only fooling high-school kids.

K1Ng5p4d3 said:

I cant agree wholeheartedly unfortunately. The only reason why, is because the moment you try to explain some shit like that to 90% of the stoner universe, their eyes glaze over and they stop payin attention to ya, lol. But if you tell them a name, then theyre payin attention, cuz they wanna be able to tell all their friends that they smoked whatever the hell you tell them it is. I dont think its right tellin people theyre smokin on somethin theyre not for sure, but if you dont know what strain it is, and its for sure some brand name chronic, then i would say take a guess as best as you can, and go from there.

N within the next little bit here, im gonna try n cross my blue cheese with my red diesel n name it Cheesey Diesel , or cross blue cheese with some twilight n call it Blue Tweezey -- somethin along them lines man. Or, (i havent grown it yet but got the seeds), just improve on a strain, n cross Nyc Diesel with The Black, n call it Black Diesel -- simple enough to name a strain n make it sound like some premiere shit, right??

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maybe you misunderstood me, if you legitamately made a strain/cross then by all means name it! you made it! i was more refering to the people who just randomly name the weed they have for marketability. if you shit is dank, it should sell itself. if your not sure what it is, say so - "not sure what its called, but look at thoses crystals..."

just my opinoin, i dont like getting lied to so i try not to do it myself.

im pretty boring with naming my buds i just call it by its taste/smell
skunky or grapey or candy.

I think playing the name game is retarded. If you don't know the name just call it dank or something generic.

Unless I breed it I wouldn't call it anything different. It was named after the plants characteristics in the first place

In my area theres only 2 kinds of weed, Regs (commercial) and then theres Crippie (higher grade). The only time I ever heard a different name was about 10 years ago when I was 17, a good friend came over and brought a couple buds of Hash plant (was great). Theres something weird with Crippie after a while you feel kinda sick from smoking it. I usually take a nap and start back up lmao.

Early on I grew some bagseed and I called it Orange Crush just to see if it would come back around to me and sure enough a couple of weeks later I heard people bragging about some shit called Orange Crush and how badass it was. I just nodded my head and said "Wow sounds good." I was secretly proud.

Edit: Anyone remember in the 90's when everyone had "Northern Lights" and then everyone had "White Widow" When people tell me it has a name I take it with a grain of salt unless it's a good buddy that grows.

Dutch1976 said:

Early on I grew some bagseed and I called it Orange Crush just to see if it would come back around to me and sure enough a couple of weeks later I heard people bragging about some shit called Orange Crush and how badass it was. I just nodded my head and said "Wow sounds good." I was secretly proud.

Edit: Anyone remember in the 90's when everyone had "Northern Lights" and then everyone had "White Widow" When people tell me it has a name I take it with a grain of salt unless it's a good buddy that grows.

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Sucks we gotta be "secretly proud" about it. Something we love to do, talk about, smoke and everything else associated with marijuana. One day you'll be able to go out into the streets and yell "I made Orange Crush!!"

I knew some weird dude that had us call him sauce (lmao), anyway he came from new york back in the late 90's early 2k and all he talked about was northern lights it was annoying as shit.